Category: Flower

“Monets Lilies” Raku Pottery Vase compliments of and beautifully hand-crafted by The Alchemist’s Studio. I must say, having purchased this vase, it is more beautiful in hand than in photos. If you haven’t checked out The Alchemist’s Studio site to see the other pottery there, you should.

The ha'sonnet format is based on the form of the Elizabethan sonnet, so I thought Iwould try and use an actual sonnet as the basis for one, selecting Shakespeare's "Sonnet 16", below. Hopefully I caught the essence of Shakespeare's poem in mine.

Sonnet 16But wherefore do not you a mightier wayMake war upon this bloody tyrant, Time?And fortify your self in your decayWith means more blessed than my barren rhyme?Now stand you on the top of happy hours,And many maiden gardens, yet unset,With virtuous wish would bear you living flowers,Much liker than your painted counterfeit:So should the lines of life that life repair,Which this, Time's pencil, or my pupil pen,Neither in inward worth nor outward fair,Can make you live your self in eyes of men. To give away yourself, keeps yourself still, And you must live, drawn by your own sweet skill.William Shakespearehttp://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/sonnet/16